BARAKAT

“THE W.O.R.D”

At the meeting point between clarity and chaos, this drawing stands — a meditation on the weight of thought, the struggle of expression, and the vast landscapes we carry within.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
— Gospel of John, 1:1

The drawing begins here — with the seed of speech, the holy desire to name, to give form.

But as the vision expands, words begin to falter.
The mystic Ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar al-Niffari reminds us:

“The more the vision widens, the narrower the expression becomes.”

This work floats between these two poles:
The sacred origin of language — and its inevitable insufficiency.

A tiny figure, alone, stands beneath an enormous cloud of symbols, signs, and fragments — the unspeakable pressing against the limits of speech.
Every shape a word, every line a thought, every curve a longing to translate the infinite into the finite.

It is a portrait of the thinker, the dreamer, the poet, and the seeker.

Barakat